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THE SUPPLIANT MAIDENS
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Chorus.

What counter-stroke to this dealt Zeus' haught Queen?


King.

Why, then she found a keeper for the cow,
Him that hath eyes which look all ways at once.


Chorus.

And what was he, this all-beholding one,
Sole neatherd of a solitary cow?


King.

Argus, earth's child, the same that Hermes slew.


Chorus.

And the device that followed? What thing else
Prepared she for the heifer heaven-accursed?


King.

She did afflict her with the gnat that stings,
A drover's goad-prick to stampeding kine.


Chorus.

They call him 'Gad-fly' on the banks of Nile.


King.

What? Did he drive her forth from her own land
As far as Nile?


Chorus.

He did so: and thy tale
Tallies in each particular with mine.


King.

And is it true then that she reached Canopus
And Memphis far inland?